22.10.2025 in 15:50. IC-9 : My Name Is Oil | Always + Q&A Igor Smola, Dom Kino, Big hall

Time and place

Wednesday, 22 October 2025 at 15:50

Dom Kino Cinema Center – Big Hall: Karavannaya Street, 12

Description

My Name Is Oil
2025, Azerbaijan, 14 min., o.v.-Azerbaijanian, documentary, short-length
Director: Igor Smola

Always
2024, USA-France-China-Taiwan, 1 h. 28 min., o.v.-Chinese/Hunan dialect, documentary, full-length
Director: Chen Deming

My Name Is Oil

Genres: Documentary, Short-length

Director: Igor Smola

Operator: Alisa Tarelicheva

Screenwriter: Igor Smola

Cast: Mahir Asadov, Kamran Ibishov, Elshan Mamedov

Producer: Igor Smola, Gregory Bagaev, Emil Najafov, Ilkin Mahammadly

Producer company : Gargantua Film Distribution

Year: 2025

Country: Azerbaijan

Duration: 14 min.

Languages: Azerbaijanian

Description

Russian premiere

The oil in the film is shown as a living organism with a heart and arteries. This organism can foresee a disaster caused by human intervention.

About the director:

Igor Smola
Filmmaker, born in 1989 in a closed town of Murmansk-150. At 11, he moved with his parents to Biysk, where he developed an interest in cinema, and later lived in St. Petersburg from age 15. In 2017, he made his first film in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the docufiction Trigger, which was shown in the out-of-competition programme of the Sarajevo Film Festival and in competition at the Spirit of Fire International Film Festival. Since 2020, he has been living in Azerbaijan, where he released his second film Destruction (2022). Igor’s third film, POV Memory (2023), participated in the International Competition of the 34th Message to Man Film Festival, as well as at ZINEBI, True/False, and the Uppsala Film Festival.

Always

Genres: Documentary, Full-length

Director: Chen Deming

Operator: Chen Deming

Producer: Hansen Lin

Producer company : Timelight Films, HandsOn Studio LLC, SaNoSi Productions, Bip TV, Springlight Picture, Rustic Pitcure

Year: 2024

Country: USA-France-China-Taiwan

Duration: 1 h. 28 min.

Languages: Chinese/Hunan dialect

Description

Russian premiere

Gong Youbin was born into a poor Chinese family. He has not seen his mother since he was three months old. Because of a poetry class in school, he embarks on an emotional journey by learning to write poems through his imagination and exploration.

About the director:

Chen Deming
Emerging director and cinematographer based in Beijing, China, and a graduate of the Li Xianting Film School. His work is characterized by a restrained yet expressive visual style, exploring themes of personal emotion and identity shaped by broader social and historical forces. His debut feature-length documentary, Song of Shiratori (2023), received a nomination for the Best Newcomer Award at the 13th China Documentary Academy Awards.